frustrated - Story 51039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was in full swing, but Jessica stood alone, awkwardly clutching a glass of wine. The book, “Jessica Riley: The Wanderer’s Heart," was the subject of every conversation. The author, a woman with a carefully crafted bohemian aesthetic, kept darting glances at her. Jessica wanted to disappear.

The music pulsed, a chaotic beat that echoed the hammering in her chest. She took a large gulp of wine, her throat feeling raw. She wanted to run, to escape the pretense and the falsehoods.

She excused herself and left the party, the sounds of celebration fading behind her.

Emotion: frustrated

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -1.56 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 0.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frustrated. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 frustrated stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frustrated emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frustrated vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.344
`P`	0.302
`exasper`	0.257
`aggravated`	0.254
`que`	0.252

Suppressed:

`unfolding`	-0.242
`otre`	-0.226
`latter`	-0.220
`☺️`	-0.216
`soon`	-0.212